I was thinking today about how life was before Netflix and iTunes. I am not at all nostalgic about movies and CD’s piling up. Maybe it is because Shannon and I have a 2 year old and an 8 month old, and we are wanting everything to be instant, downloadable, wireless, [insert tech saavy convenience here] and we have a hard enough time with the laundry, toys, goldfish/cheerio mulching of our carpet, et cetera piling up. With the exception of books, I won’t go soundly with books, we want everything either stored on a universal hard drive or accessible to us. And a lot of it already is, but I want everything like that now. Grocery stores should have saved their money on the express self check out, and invested in a way for us to order our groceries and have them either delivered or ready to be picked up. I do like the express self checkout though, cause I can breeze through not having to wait on the over conversating, the check card novices, unibagging (you know, like one box of raisins per bag by 15 year olds), and the 1 perhaps 2 open check out lanes that are backed up halfway down the dog food aisle.
I admit I am a consumer of the instant, but I am not consumed by it all yet.
Oh yea, Netflix and iTunes. When I was in college and then a single dude, I thought at the time it would be cool to amass a huge movie collection. And in some ways, I still do, but I don’t think I should have to buy furniture for things like movies and music anymore. My wife and I want to invest in a wireless terabyte drive and put all things on it. Of course in 3 years that will seem small as far as storage space goes, but we are starting to say goodbye to jewel cases, and one day we will tell Elijah and Evan of the days we had to take that movie or music out of a little box, and put it in a machine made just for a movie or music. I do remember the credenza sized record player my parents used to have that took up the wall in our family room. Our version of Netflix was to go get a Sesame Street 45′ at the library and play it on that behemoth.
BTW – i haven’t blogged in like 2 months, can you tell.
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